Technology Productivity is Vital to Educational Leadership

Nets.3.A discusses the points about how to use technology in an appropriate manner as a school administrator. These standards also discuss how to assess where the school building is at with technology, where it needs to improve and how it is going to achieve those improvements. These five articles all describe different aspects of these standards.

The idea behind choosing the cyber-bullying article describes how technology is viewed to some constituents in society. It discusses how negatively society views certain technologies that could benefit our students; such as, YouTube, MySpace and IM Chatting.

The next two articles paint the picture of teachers not using the computer because they are effective without it and their concerned about having the authority in teaching. The author compares this to learning without reading, which does not make very much sense. The author states that we need to start pushing teachers out who do not want to take part in technology integration.

The fourth article talks about the advantages of students using social networks and how much they actually use it for education. How cool would this be if as school administrators we could encourage teachers to collaborate and discuss curriculum topics by using online tools at their convenience, rather than making arbitrary dates and times to meet.

The last article also discusses how to redefine education by using online professional development communities. This allows teachers across the country to share best practices and participate in online courses to help them improve on their technology proficiency.

These four articles in essence relate the Nets.A.3 standards by discussing how we currently view technology as something scary that needs to be constantly monitored; where we could go by getting rid of traditional department/staff meetings and turning them into an online professional learning community; and how we are going to achieve this by using online professional development opportunities.